Dentistry Today

MARCH 30, 2023

As technology continues to advance, so too does the field of dentistry. In 2023, there are many technological breakthroughs that are revolutionizing the way dental treatments are performed, making them more efficient, accurate, and less invasive. Here are the top 5 technological innovations in dentistry in 2023. 3D Printing One of the most significant technological advancements in dentistry in recent years has been 3D printing. 3D printing has already had a significant impact on the dental indus

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Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Researchers at Japan’s Tokyo University discovered that the part of the rose that creates its lovely fragrance, β-damascone, a natural immunomodulator, offers anti-inflammatory properties. Authors of the study, which was recently published in the journal Frontiers Nutrition, surmise that β-damascone may be useful as an immunomodulatory drug to help the body fight cancer, infection, and disease.

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YapiApp

MAY 30, 2023

Dental offices must go paperless to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and stay up-to-date with the latest compliance needs. Additionally, a paperless office helps minimize patient wait times and allows you to deliver a better patient experience. According to Wendy Aldhamen of Forever Green Consulting , dental practices can save up to $10,000 annually by going paperless.

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Off the Cusp

MAY 24, 2023

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog Read Time: 12 Minute, 5 Second What does it mean to put an emphasis on care? For Woodbury Dental Care , it meant moving their practice 3 miles away to give their patients the best care possible. Introducing Dr. Michael Pelke Dr. Michael Pelke Michael Pelke, DDS, born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota, has always loved science.

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Coaches Corner

MAY 26, 2023

Does everyone in your dental practice truly understand why certain clinical decisions are made? Your practice needs to be “Clinically Calibrated” – find out why and how on this edition of The Dental Practice Fixers Podcast for dentists. For example, why would we do a crown instead of a two or three surface restoration? Scaling and root planing instead of a prophy?

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Perio Perio

MAY 21, 2023

Dental implants in Gainesville, VA are considered to be the gold standard tooth replacement option. One of the main reasons dental implants are a gold standard tooth replacement option is because they give patients a biocompatible smile. With biocompatible dental implants, patients will have a permanent and reliable new smile. Here is more on how dental implants can give patients biocompatible new smiles.

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My Social Practice

MAY 18, 2023

The Importance of Metadata with Dental Image SEO Strategies A solid online presence is crucial for dental practices to attract new patients and maintain a competitive edge. One of the essential aspects of building a successful online presence is search engine optimization (SEO) for your website images. Google and other search engines primarily rely on text-based information to understand, index, and rank content on the web.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 17, 2023

INTRODUCTION Do you ever stop to reflect that, as dentists, we are living in a truly amazing time? We have incredible technology at our fingertips, and patients are fortunate to have unprecedented access to dental care. But no matter how much shiny, state-of-the-art technology is available, if dentists believe that a tooth can’t be saved, it automatically becomes impossible to save it.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 22, 2023

INTRODUCTION For success with indirect mixed-media cosmetic case preplanning, each case is extremely important to achieve the best results. Using diagnostic records, such as mounted diagnostic cast models, photography, radiography, and diagnostic wax-ups, is important to plan out the case prior to teeth preparation. These cases are much more complex as you are dealing with different types of restorative materials, techniques, and aesthetic protocols.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 23, 2023

INTRODUCTION Our modern endosseous dental implants osseointegrate into the available hard tissue and serve as a foundation for fixed and fixed-detachable prostheses. 1 Many advances in dental implant prosthetics are available, including full-arch, implant-retained prostheses and implant-retained overdentures. Conventional dentures serve a viable function for many individuals.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 23, 2023

INTRODUCTION There are very few milestones in my career that changed my entire trajectory and method of practice. Designing my own cases in-house digitally would have to be at the top of that list. I can think of numerous reasons why having a full in-house digital workflow will benefit a practitioner, his or her patients, and the lab/ceramist. This article will take you along my path.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 29, 2023

Every hour, 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, someone dies of oral or oropharyngeal cancer (cancer of the back of the oral cavity and upper throat). Yet if oral cancer is detected and treated early, treatment-related health problems are reduced, and survival rates may increase. The Oral Cancer Foundation. (PRNewsFoto/Oral Cancer Foundation) (PRNewsFoto/Oral Cancer Foundation) This year an estimated 54,600 new cases of oral cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 9, 2023

If you are a dental professional looking for working capital, you’ve landed on the right page. IMS Financial provides funding to cover a variety of needs, including credit card debt consolidation, equipment finance, practice expansion, and payroll costs. Submissions are taken exclusively by application. There’s no need for tax returns or bank statements.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has opened a new $45 million Delta Dental of Tennessee Building on its Memphis campus. The 68,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building increases space for training Tennessee’s dental workforce and expands facilities to treat patients from across the Mid-South. The building opens as the UTHSC College of Dentistry is undertaking a $53 million project, as a part of the state’s five-year $94 million Healthy Smile

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Dentistry Today

MAY 19, 2023

Envista Holdings Corporation (NYSE: NVST) (“Envista”) announced that the company will participate in Stifel 2023 Jaws & Paws Conference on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, from 8:00 – 8:30 AM EDT in New York, New York. Investors will be able to access any applicable recordings for up to one year through Envista’s investor relations website under the subheading events and presentations.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Every dentist has faced the challenge of trying to get the team on board with a big change. In the business world, this process is known as managing disruptive organizational change, and it isn’t something taught in dental school. As practice leaders, many dentists encounter the need to make essential changes to practice operations or systems but meet with team resistance.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 10, 2023

The Mt. Laurel, NJ, office of Veterinary Dentistry Specialists (VDS), a veterinary dentistry and oral surgery practice, has added board-certified veterinary cardiologist Megan King, VMD, DACVIM (Cardiology), to its roster of dental and anesthesia specialists. Adding comprehensive outpatient veterinary cardiology services makes VDS the first and only veterinary dentistry and oral surgery practice in the nation with anesthesiology and cardiology specialists available to care for each patient.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Dentistry Today’s editor-in-chief, Dr. Paul Feuerstein , chats with Dr. Carla Cohn about Tokuyama products and how they have helped in her long, celebrated career as a pediatric dentist. They especially dive into OMNICHROMA FLOW BULK and everything it has to offer. OMNICHROMA FLOW BULK is a low viscosity, light-curing, radiopaque composite that offers infinite shade matching—from A1 to D4 with in-depth curing—a single bulk-fill flowable for all shades.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 30, 2023

Mosaic Dental Collective, LLC (“Mosaic”) announced a partnership with Audax Private Equity (“Audax”), a leading alternative investment manager and capital partner for North American middle market companies. Mosaic is a leading dental services organization (DSO) supporting 49 affiliated dental offices in California and Washington, with a differentiated dentist-led DSO model.

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Dentistry Today

MAY 10, 2023

Delta Dental released its 2023 State of America’s Oral Health and Wellness Report , a nationwide analysis of consumer opinions and behaviors relating to oral health. Delta Dental released the 2023 State of America’s Oral Health and Wellness Report. The report shows oral health knowledge and habits vary across generational groups, despite a strong understanding of the critical connection between oral health and overall health.

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Dentistry Today

MAY 18, 2023

Glidewell, the nation’s largest dental lab and a leader in dental technology, announced a new partnership with LuxCreo, a leading 3D printing company in dental appliances based in San Francisco, to introduce the fastprint.io 3D Printing Solution. This co-branded dental 3D printing solution is part of Glidewell’s rapidly growing glidewell.io in-office solution platform and expands Glidewell’s portfolio of digital solutions that bring the world’s most innovative dental lab

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 28, 2023

DEXIS announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for dental findings AI on 2D intraoral X-ray images. As the next generation of DEXIS software, DTX Studio Clinic now offers the first and only imaging solution with six types of pathological dental findings on periapical and bitewing intraoral radiograph images and is fully integrated into on-premise imaging software.

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Dentistry Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Babylon Dental Care is happy to welcome Dr. Azin Tarifard to the practice as their new pediatric dentist. Dr. Azin, as she’s affectionately known to her patients, is certified by the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and has over a decade of experience treating children, including those who are neurodivergent or have disabilities. Dr. Azin Tarifard and her husband “We’re so excited to welcome Dr.

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Dentistry Today

MAY 30, 2023

Smoking is one of the biggest threats to public health, killing more than 8 million people annually. Tobacco’s nicotine is also a significant risk to oral health, making it difficult to treat and detect serious gum diseases at their early stages. All forms of tobacco are equally harmful to health, says Marja Juselius , an oral hygienist who has worked with young patients in Finland for many years.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 22, 2023

Single-Tooth and Extended Edentulous Restorations BACKGROUND Titanium and titanium alloy implants have been the materials of choice in the manufacturing of dental implants for more than 5 decades. They have been thoroughly investigated and have enjoyed great success thanks to improvements in macroscopic and nanoscopic surface improvements and design.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Viz.ai, the leader in AI-powered disease detection and care coordination, announced it has been named one of Fierce Medtech’s “Fierce 15 Medtech Companies of 2022,” designating it as one of the most promising private medtech companies in the industry. “Being recognized as one of Fierce Medtech’s ‘Fierce 15’ is a testament to the dedication of the Viz.ai team and our partners to increase access to life-saving treatments using AI-powered care coordination,” said Dr.

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Dentistry Today

JUNE 6, 2023

America’s ToothFairy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to oral health care for children in underserved communities, is pleased to announce the addition of Cherie Le Penske to their esteemed board of directors. Le Penske is the founder and CEO of Armor Dental, a dental manufacturer of a proprietary line of soft retraction and non-reflective instruments for dental and medical procedures.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 24, 2023

SoftSmile , a technology company focused on delivering best in class software to the dental and orthodontic industry, was named a winner of the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. The award program recognizes superior AI capabilities and is judged by a prestigious group of business veterans including experts from around the globe from some of the world’s largest tech companies.

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Dentistry Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Data from Fluent was utilized in a new report from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute (HPI), “The Evolving Dental Practice Model.” The report, released by HPI’s chief economist, Marko Vujicic , is a comprehensive look at practice modalities and how they have changed, as well as insights into dentist/DSO affiliation.

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Dentistry Today

JUNE 8, 2023

DDS Marketing , a cutting-edge dental marketing company founded by Amir Moghaddam and Ardi Safi, has made headlines for their innovative use of AI technology in optimizing dental marketing campaigns. By utilizing AI-powered algorithms, the company has revolutionized the way dental practices advertise on platforms such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 14, 2023

INTRODUCTION Accurate recording of physical data is a critical task that dentists perform daily. The restorative workflow begins with preparing the area to be restored. This area, and the surrounding teeth and tissue, must be precisely captured. The definitive restorations are then designed and created. In the analog world, the data is captured with physical impressions, bite records, and face-bows.

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Dentistry Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Torch Dental , a leading platform for dental supply procurement ordering and spend management, and the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), the leading organization dedicated to advancing dental sleep medicine , are thrilled to announce that they are partnering to offer exclusive benefits to AADSM members. This represents a significant milestone as both organizations combine their expertise to drive innovation, education, and practice management solutions for dental practices.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 10, 2023

The Forsyth Institute , a global leader in oral health research and clinical care, is pleased to announce that Stephen E. Thorne, IV , founder and CEO of Pacific Dental Services (PDS), has been appointed to the board of directors. Mr. Thorne founded PDS in 1994, and today, it is one of the leading organizations in the country dedicated to providing administrative and business support to dental and medical practices, serving nearly 1,000 practices throughout the United States.

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Dentistry Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Improving Patient Retention: It’s a Team Effort Be More Productive With The Patients You Have “If only I had more new patients, I’d have a successful practice.” At some point in your career, have you had this thought? Yes, more new patients would be great, but what about the patients you already have? If you were to review your practice’s data, there are likely several adjustments you and your team could make to retain your existing patients and become more productive without needing a higher vo

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 30, 2023

Introducing Colgate Total Plaque Pro-Release—a new toothpaste that significantly reduces harmful plaque bacteria, resulting in 2X less gum-harming plaque compared to regular fluoride toothpaste with daily brushing. 1 When it comes to oral health , it is important to get ahead and stay ahead of potential problems, 2 which is why Colgate is doubling down on proactive care with the new Colgate Total Plaque Pro-Release.

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Dentistry Today

JUNE 6, 2023

Ultradent Products, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-tech dental materials, is introducing Jiffy Spin disks, the latest innovative product in its restorative dentistry line-up. This new shaping and finishing disk system offers dental professionals a rapid and efficient solution for high-quality restorations. Jiffy Spin disks feature precise, ultra-thin disks designed for interproximal finishing and shaping.

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Dentistry Today

MARCH 28, 2023

There exists great variability between states in efficacy of dental board regulatory oversight and discipline. Numbers of professional regulatory boards assume their charge to protect the public welfare with earnest efforts. Others are seemingly overwhelmed by internal corruption and/or gross incompetence. Ultimately, responsibility for a healthy functioning dental board rests upon state governors who appoint members (and can demand resignations) and state attorneys general who assign a board’s

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